For Ford’s Friends.
It was an unusual budget day last Thursday in Ontario. It was a day to hear about the election for those with money inside the legislature while the poor paraded…
Peter Lowry
Mayday, Mayday.
It’s election time in Ontario. And the voters are desperate. They need help. The Ford conservatives have been campaigning for months. The hapless new democrats came up with a bunch…
Feel the Anger.
The frustration with COVID-19 keeps growing. Canadians are tired of the distancing, the damn masks and the stupid elbow bumping. We all want our lives back. And the politicians aren’t…
What’s in a Name?
When you live in a large city, you find naming streets and places more difficult as time goes on. Proposed names have to be researched. Maybe not to the extent…
Better Build Bradford Bypass.
Damn the greed of Doug Ford’s Ontario conservatives. They have told their developer friends that they will build highway 413. The idea of 413 had been killed by the Wynne…
The Muddy Middle.
The conservative party’s current leadership contest is muddying the question of where the party sits in the political spectrum. The party has tried right of centre with Andrew Scheer, somewhere…
The Simplicity of Poilievre.
It is important to remember that Donald Trump caught Americans off guard with what Hillary Clinton described as his basket of deplorables. There are similar types of deplorables in Canada…
Bitcoin Boosters Beware.
At times, you just shake your head and quietly ask yourself, ‘What’s the use?’ You try to warn cryptocurrency advocates and they think they know what they are doing. There…
Hepburn’s Horrors.
Way to go, Bob Hepburn. The Toronto Star pundit tells us that that Ontario premier Doug Ford is chortling over the polls the conservatives have been taking. If Ford is…
Conservative Values.
When writing recently about how conservative leadership candidates were overusing the word ‘freedom’ it occurred to me that they also think they own the term ‘values.’ At their first English…
One little, two little, three little Tories.
Just another week and we will know who is really running for the leadership of the conservative party of Canada. You know that Poilievre is in, so is Jean Charest.…
Is Del Duca Missing in Action?
I think not. After two years of hiding in the bushes, I bet Ontario liberal leader Steven Del Duca has a grand plan. There must be a scheme in place…
Free + Dumb.
You want freedom, you’ve got freedom. It is just hardly necessary to be free and dumb at the same time. Canadians will have to stop feeling so superior to those…
Poilievre’s Polarization.
It is probably wrong to use big words when writing about MP Pierre Poilievre. The type of people who are buying into Poilievre’s campaign for the leadership of the conservative…
Weaponizing Information.
There is no more powerful weapon than information. It is used by the good people as well as the bad. It can be used by a Donald Trump to spread…
It’s Hopeless for Horwath.
It is 13 years now that Andrea Horwath has been leading Ontario’s new democrats. It has been a sad four years of lacklustre leadership that Horwath has provided the official…
Troubling Thinking.
You should never ignore a political party’s pamphlets. They tell you so much about how they think—or, in some cases, do not think. In this phony war before the real…
Finding Freedom.
If anything could have annoyed us more, it was those damn demonstrators in Ottawa and at border crossings, waving the Canadian flag. These people were not respecting the flag nor…
Quebec’s fight on the right.
It looks like Jean Charest has overestimated his conservative party credentials in Quebec. He hardly has the time to sign up CPC members one at a time. He needs to…
The Keening of Kenney.
It seems Alberta’s premier has decided to play out the tragedy of his time in Alberta politics. He was so eager and ready seven years ago when he bought a…